2022 Week #13 Sisters

My 3x great grandparents were Susan (Mitchell) and Richard Slavin. Together they had 7 daughters including my 2x great grandmother Katie (Slavin) Miner. According to family stories Richard did not buy Susan a sewing machine and so she divorced him because with 7 daughters she thought she deserved a sewing machine! He remarried and had another daughter and finally a son. So my 2x great grandmother Katie had 7 sisters and 1 brother. Quite the family. Below are a little bit about each of Richard and Susan's daughters and Richard and his 2nd wife Lucy's children. I'm lucky to have photos of many of them and have personally been to all but two of their graves. Sadly many of the daughters died at a young age. 

Caroline Virginia or Virginia Caroline "Callie"-  1859-1892

From her obituary it stated that she suffered an illness of blood poisoning for 30 days before dying. She's buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Palmyra, MO. She was married to Arch Rightmire and had 5 kids and some step kids also.  

Mary Henderson "Molly"- 1861-1920

Mary's grave sits under this cedar bush and like 6 inches from a fence! So hard to take a decent photo! She's buried in Biles Cemetery near Lancaster, MO. It's out in the middle of a cow pasture. She married John Johnson and had 9 children and was about the only of her sisters to live a long life. It's thought that her mother Susan is also buried either her with her or at least in the same cemetery. 

Dora A. - 1864-1913

Unfortunately I don't have a lot of info on Dora. I did find a marriage license from Schuyler county online saying she married Anthony Jones on December 16, 1891. Beyond that I have no idea where they are buried and if they had any kids. 

Katherine Alice "Katie"- 1866-1913

I'm lucky to have this photo in a large oval frame. It hung in my grandmas spare bedroom so I saw it all the time growing up. When my grandma passed I snagged onto the picture along with about 6 other large family photos. 

Katie is buried in Zoar Cemetery right next to her father and close to 2 of her sisters Martha and Marcena. Katie was my 2x great grandmother and 2nd wife to Jessie Franklin Miner. She carried on the tradition of girls and had 4 daughters Blanche, Edna, Marie, and Cleo and she was step mother to Walter. Unfortunately she passed away at the age of 46 from Tuberculosis. 

Maggie B.- 1868-1894

Maggie is also buried in Biles Cemetery where Mary is.  Maggie died in childbirth with her first child. She was married to Charles Terry. 

Marcena L. - 1870-1901

Marcena buried in Zoar cemetery behind her father and sister. One day while visiting the cemetery we ran into a distant cousin putting flowers on her grave. He mentioned that since Marcena died young (possibly during childbirth) that "Aunt Katie" helped take care of her children. Marcena had 2 children also die the same year she did in 1901 an infant and a 2 year old. She was married to Henry Drake. 

Martha "Mattie"- 1873-1901 

Mattie is buried also in Zoar near her sisters and father. Like Marcena she died in 1901. Since her husband, Elijah Withrow, passed before that their son Edgar was raised by an Aunt and Uncle on his fathers side. 

Their half siblings are as follows:

Edyth- 1890-1933

Edith is buried in Shaul Cemetery in Ottumwa, Iowa. 

Oddity Denton "OD"- 1893-1960 

They called him OD or Oddie but his full name is Oddity Denton Slavin. They said since he was the first boy after 8 girls he was an oddity! He's buried in Centerville, Iowa in the Oakland Cemetery.